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IBM announced it has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a leading global data and AI consultancy. Hakkoda will expand IBM Consulting's data transformation services portfolio, adding specialized data platform expertise to help clients get their data ready to fuel AI-powered business operations.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Masters Tournament today announced a series of digital fan features returning to the award-winning Masters app and Masters.com ahead of this year's Tournament. The watsonx AI-powered capabilities –

IBM and Tokyo Electron (TEL) announced an extension of their agreement for the joint research and development of advanced semiconductor technologies. The new 5-year agreement will focus on the continued advancement of technology for next-generation semiconductor nodes and architectures to power the age of generative AI.

IBM is contributing 3 open-source projects—Docling, Data Prep Kit and BeeAI—to the Linux Foundation. This move signals not only the potential growth of these projects but also IBM’s ongoing...

IBM announced new collaborations with NVIDIA, including planned new integrations based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design to help enterprises more effectively put their data to work to help build, scale and manage generative AI workloads and agentic AI applications. As part of today's news, IBM is planning to launch a content-aware storage capability for its hybrid cloud infrastructure offering, IBM Fusion; intends to expand its watsonx integrations; and is introducing new IBM Consulting capabilities with NVIDIA to help drive AI innovation across the enterprise.

With the rise of AI, ever-evolving customer needs, and seemingly endless supply chain disruptions, being in the retail business can be challenging. Luckily, technology has the potential to provide...

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada announces an innovative AI-powered tool designed to transform the customer experience for the new Mitsubishi Outlander 2025. "The Intelligent Companion," which launched on March 5, 2025, was created in collaboration with WongDoody (an Infosys company and IBM ecosystem partner) and leverages the IBM watsonx portfolio of AI products.

Call for Code Creator David Clark Cause, Founding Partner IBM, Global Impact Partner United Nations Human Rights, and Program Affiliate the Linux Foundation invite developers and problem solvers to participate in the 2025 Call for Code program to create projects and solutions that use AI to help tackle United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

IBM has been working with universities for almost a century. Today, we’re excited to share the new IBM SkillsBuild university strategy to strengthen AI education in universities, helping them...

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2025, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and IBM announced an expanded collaboration to drive enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across edge and cloud devices designed to enable increased immediacy, privacy, reliability, personalization, and reduced cost and energy consumption.

IBM today announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. Together the companies' capabilities will help clients accelerate innovation, strengthen security, and get more value from the cloud.

IBM today debuted the next generation of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2, in a continued effort to deliver small, efficient, practical enterprise AI for real-world impact.

IBM today is announcing its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI and data solution provider. DataStax's technology will enhance IBM's watsonx portfolio of products accelerating the use of generative AI, helping companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data.

Moving from productivity to performance with agentic AI Today we are introducing our new AI Integration Services to help clients transform end-to-end business processes with agentic AI on their...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its collaboration with Penn State, consistently ranked among the top six percent of the world's universities, to build and deploy MyResource, a student concierge built with watsonx, IBM's portfolio of AI products. The generative AI-powered assistant is meant to streamline details about campus resources and how to seek them when it launches, expected in the fall semester, to the nearly 90,000 Penn State students.

Technologies like Generative AI and AI Agents are poised to change the way we interact with urban environments and tackle economic and environmental challenges. Today, five new AI projects are...

In 2024 IBM signed the AI Seoul Summit’s commitments for AI Frontier Safety, a stride toward safe and trustworthy AI which IBM has long advocated for and pioneered. Today, we’re publishing...

New global research from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and Palo Alto Networks®, found that surveyed organizations are facing security complexity challenges as they juggle an average of 83 different security solutions from 29 vendors.

e&, a global technology group, has collaborated with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to deploy a pioneering, end-to-end, multi-model Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI governance solution. Announced today at the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos, this collaboration intends to enhance e&'s AI governance framework to promote compliance, oversight, and ethical practices across its growing AI ecosystem, reinforcing e&'s commitment to establishing robust governance, risk management, and regulatory oversight across its AI usage.

One of the biggest challenges of realizing ROI from AI is stickiness — making it easy to use, embedded in the natural flow of how people work, and trusted by its users. 64% of CEOs say success...

IBM and L'Oréal, the world's leading beauty company, announced a collaboration to leverage IBM's generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology and expertise to uncover new insights in cosmetic formulation data, facilitating L'Oréal's use of sustainable raw materials, for energy and material waste reductions.

CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, today announced its plans to deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM (NYSE: IBM), equipped with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.

Developers across industries have seen their job descriptions expand to include a common phrase: “generative AI.” As enterprises rush to adopt the technology, they are tasking their developers...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP SE announced the upcoming release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, designed to make it the fastest and easiest path for IBM Power customers to accelerate their ERP transformation.

A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value found that surveyed retail and consumer product executives are dramatically shifting their focus toward artificial intelligence (AI), with responses indicating that participants project spending outside of traditional IT operations could surge by 52% in the next year.

There’s no question AI was the dominant topic of 2024. Almost every enterprise – large and small – was inspired by the promise of what Generative AI could do to modernize processes, create new revenue streams and transform business models. The enormous potential of this game-changing technology stoked imagination and fueled countless AI projects.

Today, in alignment with United Nations Human Rights Day, Call for Code, the largest tech-for-good initiative of its kind driven by creator David Clark Cause, Founding Partner IBM (NYSE: IBM), Charitable Partner United Nations Human Rights, and Program Affiliate the Linux Foundation announced the winners of the annual Call for Code Global Challenge.

As we approach the end of a seemingly nonstop year of innovation, scandal and wonderment in AI, the technology’s ethics and governance has never been more important—or uncertain.

Wasabi Technologies today announced it is expanding their data management offerings for customers with the addition of IBM (NYSE: IBM) Cloud’s London data center to Wasabi’s storage regions. Wasabi’s ability to leverage IBM’s Multizone Region (MZR) addresses the need to help joint customers address their evolving regulatory requirements and leverage AI and other emerging technologies with a secured, enterprise cloud platform.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is critical to enabling action at the speed of the digital battlespace – which is faster than a human's ability to process and act on multiple sources incoming data....

During AWS re:Invent, IBM and AWS will unveil new milestones in our collaboration to help businesses adopt responsible AI. Together, we are combining our strengths to ensure that organizations can...

IBM announced Autonomous Security for Cloud (ASC), an AI-powered solution from IBM Consulting designed to automate cloud security management and decision-making to help mitigate risk for organizations accelerating their cloud journey on Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

At the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) announce new, publicly available artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to inform more sustainable urban development for cities and communities around the world, enabling decision-makers and policymakers to map urbanization and identify energy and infrastructure needs for communities in developing regions.

Given the rate and pace of AI adoption, the influx of data associated with AI will fuel tremendous business innovations, but requires strategic considerations on where data resides, compute...

Today, business leaders understand AI reflects both a challenge and an opportunity. AI is accelerating the discovery of lifesaving drugs and sustainable materials, optimizing supply chains and mining efforts, and supporting the transition to more renewable, decentralized electric grids. Yet AI adoption, like other major transformations, comes with new environmental challenges that force businesses to reevaluate and adapt their strategies.

We’re excited to announce that IBM has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Custom Software Development Services. We feel this recognition highlights our ongoing...

AI and biodiversity both thrive on complexity. For AI, massive amounts of data fuel machine learning models, helping them to recognize patterns, make predictions and solve problems. In most cases, the richer and more diverse the data, the smarter and more adaptive AI becomes.

Today, at IBM's annual TechXchange event the company announced the release of its most advanced family of AI models to date, Granite 3.0. IBM's third-generation Granite flagship language models can outperform or match similarly sized models from leading model providers on many academic and industry benchmarks, showcasing strong performance, transparency and safety.

Today IBM announced a significant expansion of capabilities in IBM Consulting Advantage, our first-of-its-kind AI-powered delivery platform leveraging IBM and strategic partner technologies that...

With almost 1,700 players in 272 games, the amount of data generated during the NFL football season is enormous. Fantasy football team owners are faced with complex decisions and an ocean of...

New research by IBM's IBV identifies a disconnect between how insurers and their customers prioritize the use of generative AI, with industry executives focusing on experience while their clients are seeking personalized risk products and insights.

To better understand how IT leaders are leveraging mainframes today and envisioning their future in the era of AI and hybrid cloud, the IBM Institute for Business Value, (IBV) in collaboration with Oxford Economics, conducted a survey of 2,551 global IT executives.

Expand hybrid cloud and AI adoption with client site capabilities of IBM® Power® Virtual Server As enterprises embark on their journeys to adopt innovative hybrid cloud and AI technologies, its...

We’re excited to announce that SAP users can now harness the power of IBM watsonx and IBM Granite, beginning with Granite.13b.chat large language model, now available through the generative AI hub on SAP AI core on the SAP Business Technology Platform

NVIDIA H100s Tensor Core GPU instances now globally available on IBM Cloud Despite increasing interest in generative AI, only 39 percent of organizations surveyed say they are currently...

IBM today signed the European Commission’s AI Pact, a set of voluntary company pledges to further industry adoption of best practices for high-risk AI and help create the right conditions for...

While we know these changes will occur as the elephant population shrinks, actually seeing it happen presents challenges. The World Wide Fund for Nature-Germany aims to track and identify individual elephants to count them. With help from IBM, the WWF will be able to use a system of camera traps connected to software that enables automatic tracking as opposed to manual tracking.

IBM announced a new AI foundation model for a variety of weather and climate use cases, available in open-source to the scientific, developer, and business communities. Developed by IBM and NASA, with contributions from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the model offers a flexible, scalable way to address a variety of challenges related to short-term weather as well as long-term climate projection.

IBM and Microsoft announced the official opening of three new IBM-Microsoft Experience Zones within IBM's Client Innovation Centers. These Experience Zones are designed to help global clients across industries, such as financial services, government, healthcare, industrial, manufacturing and consumer packed goods (CPG), find new ways to derive value from generative AI, hybrid cloud and other Microsoft products and technologies.

Salesforce and IBM plan to deliver advanced agents to support sales and services process that customers, including those in highly regulated industries, can deploy 24/7 to get work done...

The world of work is undergoing a significant transformation due to rapid advancements in AI and automation. As a result, business leaders are reevaluating their workforce strategies to get ahead...

“For Americans to realize the fully transformative potential of artificial intelligence, they need access to research, skills programs, and experiential learning opportunities that promote AI...

Today, IBM announced it has expanded its consulting services and solutions to help clients derive greater value from Oracle's cloud applications and technology and extend generative AI with an open, orchestrated approach.

Large enterprises around the world rely on IBM Z to operate their most critical and performance-intensive applications. Industries such as finance, banking, insurance, government, aviation,...

IBM’s new Digital Policy Agenda for Europe outlines key policy recommendations for the European Union’s new institutional mandate. The six-pillar plan calls on EU leaders to enact digital...

IBM announced its intent to acquire Accelalpha, a global Oracle services provider with deep expertise helping clients digitize core business operations and accelerate adoption of Oracle Cloud Applications.

What’s New: IBM and Intel have announced a collaboration to deploy Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. This offering, which is expected to be available in early 2025,...

A new IBM Institute for Business Value study found that while IT leaders are preparing organizations for accelerated generative AI adoption, C-suite executives' confidence in their IT team's ability to deliver basic services is declining.

As summer heats up and sports fans around the globe turn their attention to exciting events like the US Open, a new wave of technology is emerging on the court. Recent research by IBM and Morning...

IBM and the World Wide Fund For Nature - Germany (WWF) announced they will work together to explore developing a new solution to support the monitoring of keystone species, starting with the critically endangered African forest elephant.

ASMPT and IBM announced a renewed agreement to extend their collaboration on the joint development of the next advancement of chiplet packaging technologies.

IBM today announced the availability of Mistral Large on watsonx.ai, as part of our commitment to make high quality, performant foundation models widely accessible to enterprises – and...

Successful deployment of generative AI requires trust across your institution's journey, from partners to data, to models to outcomes.

We’re at a watershed moment with generative AI. According to findings from the IBM Institute for Business Value, investment in generative AI is expected to grow nearly four times over the next two to three years. For enterprises that make the right investments in the technology it could deliver a strategic advantage that pays massive dividends. At IBM® we are committed to helping clients navigate this new reality and realize meaningful value from generative AI over the long term.

Today, at the AI Ethics for Peace: World Religions commit to the Rome Call event, IBM (NYSE: IBM) reaffirmed its leadership and commitment to the Rome Call for AI Ethics. Hosted by the Vatican's RenAIssance Foundation, in collaboration with the Pontifical Academy of Life, Religions for Peace Japan, United Arab Emirates' Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's Commission for Interfaith Relations, this latest gathering for the Rome Call welcomes the co-signage of eastern religious leaders and seeks to shape the technical progress to support the progress of humanity, and inspire peaceful collaboration and global unity for ethical AI development, the core principle of the document.

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and IBM today announced a new collaboration to establish a Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) based on the IBM watsonx™ AI and data platform.

Last year, IBM Consulting hosted its first-ever hackathon in collaboration with Microsoft to provide clients with hands-on access to use Azure OpenAI services. The hackathon attracted 500...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and The All England Lawn Tennis Club today announced a new feature for the Wimbledon digital experience that will leverage match data with generative AI from IBM's AI and data platform, watsonx, to keep fans updated on the world's leading players as they advance through The Championships.

New findings from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value revealed that banking and financial markets (BFM) CEOs are facing workforce and culture and challenges as they act quickly to implement and scale generative AI across their organizations.

Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, and multinational technology company IBM, today announced a joint development partnership aimed at establishing mass production technologies for chiplet packages. Through this agreement, Rapidus will receive packaging technology from IBM for high-performance semiconductors, and the two companies will collaborate with the aim to further innovate in this space.

IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SKYARCH NETWORKS INC. (“SKYARCH NETWORKS”), a Japan-based professional services company specializing in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The planned...

Today, at its annual THINK conference, IBM announced several new updates to its watsonx platform one year after its introduction, as well as upcoming data and automation capabilities designed to make artificial intelligence (AI) more open, cost effective, and flexible for businesses. During his opening keynote, CEO Arvind Krishna will share the company’s plans to invest in, build and contribute to the open-source AI community as a core part of IBM’s strategy.